FinchHaven, 10 months ago

@ben

He got brigaded by personalities from *.art

Not the first time that's happened, believe me

And no, this does not document the detailed back-and-forth of it all

It's the standing-off-at-a-distance overview

csolisr, 10 months ago

The developer committed the grave mistake of:

• hosting his repository in the same server as some alt-right developers (something he immediately amended as soon as he found it out, but you know, historic memory is eternal)
• not block alt-right nodes in his main server, and even repost a link to a news post one such server made, without actually going and checking the profile first

And so, guilt by association applies, to the point of causing a fork of the fork already: https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp

As a bonus, there is a #FIrefish company already registered in the UK, so the rebrand was, in fact, legally necessary for #Iceshrimp.

skyfaller, 10 months ago

@ben Not sure if any of the narrators are reliable, but here's the primary source: https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/suspending-firefish-social

researchbuzz, 10 months ago

@ben I've been working on a bunch of tools for searching Mastodon, including a two-hashtag search.

Searching for both firefish and calckey seemed to serve up a fair amount of tea.

https://mastogizmos.com/2tags.html

wonkothesane, 10 months ago

@ben The lead dev is being accused of doctoring screenshots of a conversation with the admin of .art, and supporting racism through their association with a problematic person

Don’t know the truth of any of it. But that’s the gist